A good dog-powered scooter

Treehugger featured a good dog-powered scooter:

The Bou-Matic CowTrakker

The Bou-Matic Cow Trakker Tag is meant to help you to solve reproductive and health problems in your herd.

The Bou-Matic CowTrakker uses state-of-the-art electronic motion sensing technology to monitor cow activity. The CowTrakker is easily installed and worn around the cow's neck. Not only safer to put on cows, this minimizes damaged and lost tags commonly associated with leg-worn pedometer tags as well as sore legs resulting from pedometer tags improperly installed on cows. The CowTrakker from Bou-Matic is a unique reproductive management tool that can help you:

• Reduce your number of cull cows due to reproductive and health problems

• Reduce inseminations per cow

• Reduce calving intervals

• Increase your average milk production per cow

• Accelerate genetic improvements in your herd

• Save time and labor

Turn your cat into lion

An kit to turn your cat into a lion can be found on netpharmacy:

Elephant Behavior Consultant

Alan Roocroft is an elephant behavior consultant. He wrote an important book called "Managing Elephants: An Introduction to Their Training and Management ".

According to elephant trainers Alan Roocroft and Donald Atwell Zoll in their book Managing Elephants, an Introduction to their Training and Management, approximately 100 deaths have occurred in circuses and zoos since 1980 due to elephant attacks, while another 50 or so injury causing incidents occur annually in North America. As well, each year a number of elephants are destroyed because they are deemed too dangerous to work with.

He is also specialised in foot care as described here:

Alan Roocroft/ James Oosterhuis, Foot Care for Captive Elephants
in: The Elephant´s Foot by Csuti/Sargent/Bechert (editors), 2001

p. 21:

"We believe that no matter how good a foot care program is,
eventually foot problems will be seen because
they are the result of keeping elephants in captivity.”

“Adequate exercise is one of the most important aspects of proper elephant husbandry. Healthy feet require
exercise of all joints, tendons, and ligaments. Anything less predisposes an elephant to foot problems, especially later in an elephant´s life. Too often, however, the need for adequate exercise is overlooked or ignored. As a consequence, captive elephants become overweight and are less likely to exercise at all. One or two hours of walking each day should be considered the minimum amount of time an elephant needs for cardiovascular activity. “

“Although the wild elephants´feet are not typically considered pretty or well pedicured, they are healthy and functional.”

CATPRIN: a tailor for cats

Thank you Mr G. for pointing us on CATPRIN: a tailor for cats:
CATPRIN, a tailor for cats. Ever imagined dressing up your lovely cat into a fabulous beauty? You don't have to dress her everyday, in fact she might not feel comfortable with a dress on for days. Just dress her up only on special occasions like her birthday, takes a photo and that should leave you lots of memories and fantasies.

Among their realizations, there are some tremendous products like the chicken costume package or Mobutu's leopard's hat:


The gentleman's garment is huge too:

Backyard monorails for dogs

Via boingboing, this incredible monorail for puppies:
Model and Photos courtesy of James Horecka, January 2006



Good job!

Pet augmented device to turn it into a frog

Interestingly, there seems to be a trend in pet clothes lately: frog-augmentation:

Jesus Pets

Jesuspets is assembling a community of heathen pet-lovers to care for pets that are “left-behind.” We are coordinating with feed mills and kennels in preparation for your post-apocalyptic pet care needs.

Who is going to care for your pets after you are raptured into heaven?

Many Christians believe that animals do not go to heaven. So when Jesus comes back and you return with him to heaven, will there be somebody to take care of your dog or cat?

If you have a non-Christian family member, they might take care of your pet, but if not, have you made any plans? Imagine being taken to streets of gold while your dog starves to death walking around in his own feces trapped in your small house or apartment, subject to fire and earthquakes or even being eaten by heathens searching for any remaining morsel of food. Do you want that to happen?

With the imminent collapse of the global economy and rampant godlessness, even the community shelters will not have the resources to care for your poor, hungry animals. So you need to make preparations.

The secret of dog's long life

As Ananova reports:

The Austrian owner of a 22-year-old Dachshund says the secret of his dog's long life is cigarettes. Wolfgang Treitler, from Graz, says his dog General Edi has been munching his way through 10 cigarettes a day for years. Treitler said: "His old owner abandoned him and so we took him in 17 years ago, and noticed straight away that he was in the habit of eating cigarettes.

"He eats the tobacco and the paper, and then chews a while on the filter before spitting it out. "On average he eats about 10 cigarettes a day, but all of his teeth are fine and he is as fit as a puppy, even though he turned 22 this week." Local vet Harald Mayr said: "Nicotine normally leads to poisoning in dogs, but in this case the animal has obviously become addicted to it which has increased its level of tolerance."

Luxury Pet Hostel

(via) Mazzus is Philadelphia's first luxury pet hotel.

A mere $100 per night nabs your dog a 5' x 7' x 8' "suite, replete with a platform bed, high-thread count linens, toys and even television. Pets are also treated to three meals and walks per day, all the fresh spring water they can drink and, of course, maid service.

A budgie that do stitching

According to the Sun,

SPIKE the budgie is a clever little sew and sew — she can do STITCHING. And the three-year-old bird is so darn good she has been voted Young Cross-Stitcher of the Year. Spike spent months watching her owner Sandra Battye creating patterns before picking up a needle in her beak herself. They are now birds of a feather and work on tweed and other fabrics together.